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CAOS Theory Podcast 2009.06.26

Jay Lyman, June 26, 2009 @ 3:31 pm ET

Topics for this podcast:
*Intel makes latest Moblin move with Nokia
*Sonatype building commercial software, strategy around Apache Maven
*OpenLogic sees growth, changing perspectives on open source
*Some thoughts on open source and sales and marketing
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CAOS Theory Podcast 2009.06.12

Jay Lyman, June 12, 2009 @ 2:19 pm ET

Topics for this podcast:
*Code consolidation as SourceForge scoops up Ohloh
*Has open source won the enterprise battle? What now?
*Continued clouds for open source with Freedom OSS
*Red Hat’s JBoss Open Choice
iTunes or direct download (27:10, 6.3 MB)

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CAOS Theory Podcast 2009.05.15

Jay Lyman, May 15, 2009 @ 2:11 pm ET

Topics for this podcast:
*Open source among M&A pickup
*SugarCRM – new pricing, strategy and CEO
*Debating what is or is not an open source vendor
*The Icinga fork of the Nagios project
iTunes or direct download (28:06, 6.5 MB)

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Playing fantasy M&A with the Benchmark/Accel open source investment portfolio

Matthew Aslett, May 5, 2009 @ 9:16 am ET

Javier Soltero, former CEO of Hyperic, has maintained that the sale of Hyperic to SpringSource was driven by discussion between himself and SpringSource CEO, Rod Johnson, but the fact that the companies shared investors - Accel Partners and Benchmark Capital - no doubt accelerated the deal (and I wonder whether either could have afforded to [...]

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CAOS Theory Podcast 2009.05.01

Jay Lyman, May 1, 2009 @ 5:23 pm ET

Topics for this podcast:
*Oracle-Sun roundup on open source
*Canonical’s Ubuntu 9.04 hits servers, PCs, netbooks
*New cloud plays look to open source
*Is SMB and midmarket opportunity growing?
iTunes or direct download (26:59, 6.2 MB)

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CAOS Theory Podcast 2009.04.17

Jay Lyman, April 17, 2009 @ 2:00 pm ET

Topics for this podcast:
*CAOS 11 - Open to Investment
*CollabNet out with new TeamForge 5.2
*Memcached and MySQL appliances abound
iTunes or direct download (25:05, 5.8 MB)

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CAOS Theory Podcast 2009.04.03

Jay Lyman, April 3, 2009 @ 6:41 pm ET

Topics for this podcast:
*Moblin moves from Intel to Linux Foundation
*Microsoft and TomTom settle, issues remain
*No surprise – VC funding for open source down
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CAOS Theory Podcast 2009.03.20

Jay Lyman, March 20, 2009 @ 2:40 pm ET

Topics for this podcast:
*IBM-Sun rumors swirl with implications for open source
*Linux and open source rising up in the clouds
*Acquia adds to Drupal-based commercial offerings
*West Coast CAOS Tour
iTunes or direct download (28:21, 6.8 MB)

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CAOS Theory Podcast 2009.03.06

Jay Lyman, March 6, 2009 @ 4:55 pm ET

Topics for this podcast:
*Microsoft’s TomTom suit – meaning for Linux?
*The ‘open core’ conversation continues
*Linux gaining or waning in netbooks?
*Actuate’s BIRT means bigger bet on open source BI
iTunes or direct download (28:33, 6.6 MB)

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CAOS Theory Podcast 2009.02.20

Jay Lyman, February 20, 2009 @ 3:04 pm ET

Topics for this podcast:
*Red Hat and Microsoft come together on virtualization
*New deals and models mean mobile Linux consolidation
*Sun shuffles its open source stack
iTunes or direct download (28:05, 6.6 MB)

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CAOS Theory Podcast 2009.02.06

Jay Lyman, February 6, 2009 @ 2:14 pm ET

Topics for this podcast:
*Defining an open source vendor
*The virtual desktop game opens up
*Canonical’s Ubuntu survey, Linux server market
*Marten Mickos moving on from Sun
iTunes or direct download (26:32, 6.1 MB)

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CAOS Theory Podcast 2009.01.23

Jay Lyman, January 23, 2009 @ 4:15 pm ET

Topics for this podcast:
*Open source gets into government
*The Open Solutions Alliance and proprietary influences
*Open source vendors continue to get VC funding
*Lots of Linux netbook news
iTunes or direct download (27:58, 6.5 MB)

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CAOS Theory Podcast 2009.01.09

Jay Lyman, January 9, 2009 @ 3:52 pm ET

Topics for this podcast:
Our commercial open source software outlook for 2009
*Impact of current economic conditions
*Business strategies evolve
*Community open source grows
*What’s next in funding and M&A?
iTunes or direct download (28:45, 6.6 MB)

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CAOS Theory Podcast 2008.12.19

Jay Lyman, December 19, 2008 @ 5:12 pm ET

Topics for this podcast:
*Free Software Foundation sues Cisco
*Code-vetting business continues for Black Duck, Palamida and others
*Open source ERP player xTuple targets new verticals
*The outlook for open source enterprise applications in 2009
iTunes or direct download (27:52, 6.4 MB)

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CAOS Theory Podcast 2008.12.05

Jay Lyman, December 5, 2008 @ 7:10 pm ET

Topics for this podcast:
* Open source getting, and going without VC investment
* Oracle contributions to Linux and open source
* Sun’s latest moves with MySQL database and version 5.1
* Linux in high-end computing
iTunes or direct download (25:50, 6.0 MB)

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CAOS Theory Podcast 2008.11.21

Jay Lyman, November 21, 2008 @ 5:44 pm ET

Topics for this podcast:
* Updates on GroundWork, Hyperic and Zenoss
* Sun’s ups and downs
* Symbian’s open source course emerges
* CAOS 10 on mobile open source
iTunes or direct download (27:20, 6.3 MB)

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CAOS Theory Podcast 2008.11.07

Jay Lyman, November 7, 2008 @ 5:07 pm ET

Topics for this podcast:
* MuleSource, Progress and SpringSource stir open source in SOA
* Terracotta grows JVM clustering with open source
* European perspectives on open source
* Canonical’s Ubuntu Linux gets an update
iTunes or direct download (31:40, 7.3 MB)

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CAOS Theory Podcast 2008.10.24

Jay Lyman, October 24, 2008 @ 7:22 pm ET

Topics for this podcast:
-GOSCON and government adoption of open source
- Paglo uses search, SaaS and open source for IT management
- Engine Yard rides Ruby on Rails for Web application development
- Our latest long report, CAOS 9 - Open source is not a business model
iTunes or direct download (28:04, 6.5 MB)

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CAOS Theory Podcast 2008.10.10

Jay Lyman, October 10, 2008 @ 2:42 pm ET

Agenda:
* Linux and open source conferences growing, changing
* Red Hat has low-cost HPC Linux package
* Ringside knocked out
* Open source software in the struggling economy
iTunes or direct download (27:40, 6.5 MB)

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CAOS Theory Podcast 2008.09.26

Jay Lyman, September 26, 2008 @ 3:43 pm ET

Agenda
* Essentia builds out open source community, collaboration and commercial prospects
* Untangle releases Re-Router to bring open source security software to Windows PCs, networks
* A report from the Linux Plumbers Conference in Portland, Oregon
* Google Android is out with G1 handset from HTC, T-Mobile
iTunes or direct download (35:15, 8.1MB)

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